HEAT TREATMENTS

These treatments are:

· Annealing.

· Normalising.

· Air or water quenching.

· Tempering.

· Stress relieving.

For these tasks there are four furnaces with the following dimensions:

· Mobile rectangular base furnace capable of reaching temperatures of up to 1200ºC with a maximum load of 20 tonnes and measuring 4000 x 3500 x 1970 mm.

· Mobile rectangular base furnace capable of reaching temperatures of up to 1000ºC, with a maximum load of 30 tonnes and measuring 6500 x 3500 x 1700 mm.

· Rectangular furnace capable of reaching temperatures of up to 1200ºC with a maximum load of 3.5 tonnes and measuring 5000 x 1500 x 1700 mm.

· Circular pit furnace capable of reaching temperatures of up to 1000ºC with a maximum load of 30 tonnes and measuring 6000 mm. diameter x 2500 mm. high.